/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>455471
google dh gate. a quick search and i can buy LED lights for 1 cent a piece...though quality on the other hand i cant promise since its coming from hong kong/china

>>451177
quick temporary gig to make money:

1. buy two packs of cigarettes, mynthol and regular (get something like marlboro)

2. locate the local county jail, NOT your city jail, ie the big place people go to for a couple years and where the county sends its drunks, normally next to the county prison.

3. find the release spot, where people that get out of jail come out.

4. stand there, sell cigs for 50 cents a pop, when i got arrested i bought 5 cigs at 50 cents a pop, those guys are high strung and if theyre smokers will need one bad.

repeat process 24/7, you can make some quick change that way

20 cigs @ 6 dollars

20 x .50 = 10 dollars, 4 dollars profit per pack, you can probably make around 10-15 bucks an hour or so doing this

I honestly can't imagine the lock is anything super amazing, I worked at a movie theater that used big displays for posters (granted thats not exactly the same) and it was just a cheap lock that given a few minutes of free time, you could easily bend the cheap metal housing/otherwise pop it open without any real damage

btw, you shouldn't do this or you might go to jail, bad move man

you could try to craigslist a free beat up mannequin, then do a paper mache cast of your limbs piece by piece. then place them on the mannequin and use clay/more paper mache/whatever to fillt he gap.

it'd be less work and less material to fill the hollow of a paper mache, keep in mind the thicker you make the mache limbs the more gap/clearance you'll have in your final product against your body, which i'd think would be a good thing so you have some breathing room etc

>>451644
ohh, if copper (honestly anything other than PVC would shock me)

-get a pipe cutter form home depot
-cut the leak out (shut water off before cutting pipes at any time duh)
-go back to home depot, find right size copper pipe
-get the pipe and 2 sleeves/couplings
-get a propane torch + flux + soldir for copper piping, all should be available at home depot
-Smother new parts with flux, stick couplings + pipe into position, heat with torch, melt soldir all over the couplings/new/old pipe anywhere they meet, let cool, run hot water to clear out flux form the inside

>>451433
fixing the pipe: if it's a metal pipe, you'll need to replace that entire segment of pipe, but honestly unless you have an old ass house it will probably be PVC.

if metal:
-get a wrench that matches the size you need
-unscrew pipe
-take pipe to home depot/plumbers supply, get new pipe and replace

if PVC:
-cut off the broken area
-bring broken pipe to home depot
-buy 2x couplings, new segment of pipe, and the "purple stuff" as i call it, it's some kind of pvc glue used for this sort of thing. tell them the purple glue stuff, theyll know.
-measure twice, cut once, test fit, once happy slather purple stuff on both sides of coupling and pipe, shove in place and hold for 30 seconds

finding the leak: cut low before cutting high. An access panel at the floor looks normal, an access panel at the top looks like shit and youll probably want to repair the drywall then. Hope its low. cut hole, look in, use flashlight etc to look along it. It's more than likely at a spot where 2 pipes are joining. see if you can find blueprints for hte house for a guess

dad and older brother have done nothing but plumbing as long as i can remember, and I've worked with my older bro for a few years in the past.

with that said, heres how plumbers do it:

-get small saw from walmart/home depot
-get 4 screws
-get access panel (white square sheet of plastic) from home depot
-get hammer/screwdriver

1. stab screwdriver/bash hammer into wall where you need the hole
2. use handsaw to cut the hole how big you need it, final hole needs to be smaller than the access panel you purchased
3. do plumbing work
4. screw access panel on with screws when done, covering the hole

This way you have an access panel for future use if you ever have to do it again

>>451578

lol...
Have you ever looked at the ground around a full grown tree? The bulging roots (just the ones you can see) can span 15-20 feet wide, thats not counting whats actually underneath.

You'd be fine for a good amount of time while the trees were still small, but eventually just about any tree you plant will be WAY too big to fit on any decent looking wall.

you from austin OP?

cats shit and pissed on my bed while i was out of town once

took a carpet shampoo-er to it 2 times, removed the stench and 90% of the stains

>>450535
now connect that to a jackhammer and your set

look into city events in your area, I go between Houston and Austin constantly and there's always some kind of event going on like city wide garage sales, festivals, traders markets, etc

Flea markets wouldnt hurt to look into either.

Prices can range from 10 dollars for a day space up to hundreds, depending on the event you're looking at. Look for ones where homemade/crafts type stuff is sold. You could make out like a bandit

>>446950
sounds like you want to shoplift.

keep in mind even if the barcode doesnt scan, theyll punch in the barcodes number manually and bamo, retail price.

there was a man who got busted a few years back that was buying expensive lego sets super cheap. he was creating his own barcodes and printing them out, bringing them to the store, grab lego set, slap homemade barcode sticker over real barcode, and bamo, 99.98 lego set for 24.98

he did this in large scale (video of him with shopping carts filled to the brim with lego) is the only reason he got caught

1. create the copper tube lined fan as your picture
2. figure out how to re-fill a fridges cooling line
3. splice into mini-fridge cooling line and refill
4. finished

>>446474
actually I take that back. Your statement basically says you want to turn 300 into 600 in 24 hours. it'd only take about 100 for me to do that...so...buy merchandise then have a big fancy dinner I guess.

What I do every day. Invest the 300 in merchandise to re-sell. 2-3 big ticket items and I'm done in 24 hours.

I quit my job almost a year ago and moved into online marketing (when DIY was brand new I posted how-to's, but they seem to have vanished)

I've never been happier career wise. I work as much or as little as I want, bring in as much or little as I want, and build my own schedule, allowing me to take up projects and work on them as I please.

tl;dr feels good man

>>260520
that was me btw.

a few suggestions:

-ebay
-article writing/spinning
-adsense
-hobby website with ad placement
-create a product

full time computer tech, part time online marketer here.

I tried the "sell computers" avenue both on ebay and CL.

Laptops are the only thing that make money if you can get them and fix at a good price (2-600 for used on ebay), on CL they try to cut you down to 100 or less

desktops dont accomplish dick, ive posted hella discounted items just to free up space and barely even a bite beyond basically donating a machine to some cheapskate

>>213735
not op, nor do i have any interest in this, however you sir must be an idiot.

just as the article describes how it was transformed into what it is today, the same thing can happen to take it back over. people of the correct nature (referred to as "makers") can show an intereset all around, try to join, some get in, soem dont, and over the course of a few generations, as long as we continue to attempt to join in, eventually, we become the supreme power within it.

not a hard to follow concept.

hard drive external inclosure. make sure you get a laptop size one and IDE or SATA depending on what kind of hdd you have.

10-15 bucks total

>>211109
not accurate at all.

I'm an ebay seller, amongst many other things IM related.

I make about 2000/mo total, about 1000/mo profit with ebay with only 1-3 hours of work a day, easily scaleable by investing more hours its one of my top 5 streams of income in the last year.

MTG has a potential to make a lot of money, but my theory says it wont. 90% of mtg cards sell 4 for a buck, IF Your lucky. after shipping that comes to a grand total of what? 60 cents revenue? after selling ffes itd be 45, after listing fees itd be 20 unless you use the 50 free listings. 20 cents/4 = 6 cents a card, your losing your ass.

Only chance is to pull good cards often for 15-20 bucks, but I dont know how likely that would be.

good luck to ya

I really wish someone still had the screencaps of my thread when DIY first came out.

I shared so much info T_T

>>204577
I've known "crafters" and looked into it myself, in my experience, the internet is swamped with cheap chinese labor products for just about any craft niche, meaning you cant make enough to be worth the effort and time invested in the creation process. However, I do know if you are willing to talk face to face, you can talk corner stores into stocking your merchandise (sell bulk to them at a wholesale price.) If you have a product of good quality, it nearly sells itself from what Ive been told. I know someone that did this a few years ago and made a killing, and I dabbled with selling stuff from china this way (I quit because it was in the early days of my wholesale purchasing, and i didnt know chinese bootlegs imported to america = jail time, quit the instant I found out)

same rules apply to the guy w/ the fossils. Come up with little craft ideas for them (google "what to do with fossiles" for instance) and try selling them locally to corner stores at wholesale.

you CAN sell them online, but the profits will probably be so minor it wont be worth it. ebay + paypal eats out 12% of your profit, another buck in listing fees, and shipping is around 1.70 for very small objects, so you'd have to be selling them at 10+ dollars to make any decent wage, which just isnt easy to do with things like this